Bericht: Inhaftierte Frauen werden im Iran systematisch sexuell missbraucht

Mädchen und Frauen, die gegen das iranische Regime demonstrieren un von Sicherheitskräften fest genommen werden, müssen in Haftanstalten sexuellen Missbrauch und Belästigungen erleiden.

CNN hat mit Betroffenen gesprochen und einen längeren Hintergrundbericht veröffentlicht:

In recent weeks, social media videos have emerged allegedly showing Iranian security forces sexually assaulting female demonstrators on the streets. Reports of sexual violence against activists in prisons began to surface.

With media access inside Iran severely constrained, CNN went to the region near Iraq’s border with Iran, interviewing eyewitnesses who'd left the country and verifying accounts from survivors and sources both in and outside Iran. CNN corroborated several reports of sexual violence against protesters and heard accounts of many more. At least one of these caused severe injury, and another involved the rape of an underage boy. In some of the cases CNN uncovered, the sexual assault was filmed and used to blackmail the protesters into silence, according to sources who spoke to the victims.